PACJA boss joins global leaders to urge policy shift to adaptation

The Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance joined over fifty leaders from the international climate and development community today in Rotterdam, Netherlands to urge the 26^th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework on Climate Change to prioritise climate adaptation.

With less than a hundred days to go until the world’s most significant summit on climate change, the Dialogue established that the success of COP26 will be determined by whether, for the first time, adaptation is elevated to an equal priority with the mitigation of carbon emissions.

During the closed-door Dialogue, the global leaders present confirmed the imperatives for COP26:

• Ambition: adaptation ambition must be fully aligned with science and the realities of the climate emergency and must be constantly raised year on year in a pathway that COP26 can establish.
• Finance: clear delivery on the UN-agreed annual $100 billion where financial flows for adaptation must be a on a par with financial flows for mitigation and the leveraging of pandemic recovery resources for maximum climate benefit including considering partial channelling of the $650 billion of newly allocated IMF Special Drawing Rights.
• Partnerships: Forge the partnerships necessary to deliver and mainstream bold climate adaptation action over the next decade as countries continue to grapple with the growing climate emergency building on the examples of GCA, African Development Bank and African Union’s Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program.

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